Hardware grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Hardware in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 145-168 of 335 grants
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Part-funded innovation projects between businesses and academic partners.
Project Definition
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses planning R&D projects through Invest NI project-definition support.
Technical Development Incentive
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland SMEs using technical service providers through Invest NI innovation support.
Innovate UK EDGE Growth Loans
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom small companies with EDGE growth loans for scalable innovation.
SFC Student Placement Innovation Vouchers
🇬🇧SFC · United Kingdom
Funds Scottish SMEs extending academic collaborations through SFC-backed student placement vouchers.
Barclays Eagle Labs x Plexal Scaleup Programme
🇬🇧Plexal · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom technology scale-up through a hybrid programme for growth firms with either raised capital or active revenue.
Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports Strathclyde community teams building entrepreneurial skills through a practical team challenge program.
Regional EDGE
🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom
Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.
Start Up Loans
🇬🇧BBB · United Kingdom
Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.
TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom
Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.
WE Innovate
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.
Scottish Scale EDGE
🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom
Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.
Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) autumn
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.
Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Santander X UK Awards
🇬🇧Santander · Spain
Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy)
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.
Innovation Vouchers
Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments
Diversey · United States
Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.